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Dear all,The Pristley Centre for Climate Change at the University of Leeds is inviting application for a fully funded PhD in 'Tradeoff and complementarity between energy use, transport and food choices under personal carbon trading'. This is an exciting multidisciplinary project, with joint supervision from the Institute for Transport Studies, School of Engineering, Centre for Choice Modelling, Business School and School of Food Sciences. The studentship is expected to start from October 2019, deadline for application is February 8, 2019. Please follow the link to find further detail: https://engineering.leeds.ac.uk/research-opportunity/201353/research-degrees/2811/tradeoff-and-complementarity-between-energy-use,-transport-and-food-choices-under-personal-carbon-trading-(priestley-doctoral-scholarships) Regards,Zia Project description Direct energy consumption in the households (resulting from energy use for residences and transport choices) is responsible for the largest share of UK carbon emissions and presents a significant challenge to reducing GHG emissions. The situation is further aggravated if embedded emissions from food, especially meat products, are included in the household emission account, too (e.g. CCC 2018 suggests substantial cuts in the consumption of meat products in order to combat climate change). As such reducing emissions from household consumption is an important front in the challenge to meeting GHG emission target. This project intends to investigate the effects of a novel policy – personal carbon trading – in order to reduce GHG emissions from the household consumption sector. In such a policy, households will be allocated carbon budgets or permits, which can then be traded amongst themselves, similar to upstream emissions trading schemes. While there has been previous studies on personal carbon trading at the direct energy, transport energy and combined transport and direct energy use level (Wadud 2011, Fawcett 2015, Wadud and Chintakayala 2018), indirect emissions from food or other household consumption has not been included in the household carbon budgets before. Yet, including meat consumption enhances the flexibility available to people in reducing emissions. The aim of the project is to understand the potential responses of households to such a policy and their potential pathways to reduce emissions. Special focus will be on the consumers’ tradeoff between reducing emissions from in-house energy use, transportation choices and food choices. The project will have a strong quantitative modelling component. It will likely involve choice experiments and choice modelling, although traditional econometric/statistical/quantitative behavioural model or a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods (mixed methods) may also be a possibility. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Zia Wadud, PhD DIC Associate Professor Centre for Integrated Energy Research (CIER), Institute for Transport Studies (ITS), & School of Chemical and Process Engineering (SCAPE) University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK Tel. +44 113 343 7733Skype. ziawadud&Honorary Sectretary, UTSG http://www.utsg.net--------------------------------------------------------------Recent publications:Personal carbon trading: Tradeoff between in-home andtransport related emissions, Ecological Economics, 156 (2019) *New* Modelling energy demand from higher education institutionsusing a hybrid panel model: A case study of the UK, Appleid Energy, 233-234(2019) *New*The smart grid as commons: Exploring alternatives toinfrastructure financialisation, Urban Studies (2018)Congestion impacts of shopping using vehicle tracking data,J. Transport Geography, 70 (2018)Vulnerability to fuel price increases in the UK: Ahouseholdlevel analysis, Transportation Research Part A, 113 (2018)Totalcost of ownership and market share of hybrid and electric vehicles in the UK,US and Japan, Applied Energy, 209 (2018) *Most downloaded* covered in GuardianFully automated vehicles: A cost of ownership analysis toinform early adoption, Transportation Research Part A, 101 (2017) *Most downloaded* Help or hindrance? Travel, energy and carbon impacts ofhighly automated vehicles, Transportation Research Part A, 86 (2016) *Mostcited+downloaded* covered in NYTimes, Times, etc. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the UTSG list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=UTSG&A=1